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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Nuro Robotics Wants to Deliver Autonomously
More on the company Nuro, working with Dominos, Wal-Mart, Kroger and others to test the idea of autonomous delivery of product. Are we ready?We're NuroWe believe...
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Wal-Mart Thinking Robot Delivery
Saw this earlier by other retailers like Kroger. Are we ready for autonomous delivery? How will this coexist with traffic in the suburbs and city? The liabilities...
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New Places, Ideas for Assistive Robotics
First I had heard of this work at Johns Hopkins, notably for links to healthcare process. What does it mean to be assistive with people, in processes that require...
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An Internet from Space
Satellites and Network design that would cover the earth with an Internet.A Network Design for the 'Internet from Space'ETH ZurichFlorian MeyerDecember 10, 2019...
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Amazon to Open first Non Whole Foods Retail
What will such a location look like, the technology, the merchandising mix? Affluent clearly.Amazon said to be opening its first supermarket in Februaryin Yahoo...
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Donald Knuth Spreads the Code
Knuth was an inspiration in my earliest days of coding. Always pull out his books and skim them when he name comes up.Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 years of ‘The...
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Alexa Knowledge Skills Advance to Existing Templates
Note the capabilities for security in the enterprise, as well as editing and reuse of existing knowledge. Ultimately if this is done well, it can greatly advance...
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Blending AR Realities for 3D Interaction
How do you create realistic augmented reality experiences on non specialized devices, like an advanced smartphone? Say you wanted to overlay data on top of an...
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Pay Up or We Leak Your Data
Not very unexpected. But a means to make smaller groups take notice, to create more incentive to respond with blackmail payments more quickly. And can createRansomware...
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Banning the Prediction of Emotion?
We examined and experimented with aspects of the idea for 20 years. A number for these efforts are touched on in this blog, see the tags below. But now its seen...
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Introducing AI Index Report
Access at the link, worthwhile to look at. Like strong human-centric looks, we need more of that.Introducing the AI Index 2019 Report By Stanford UniversityAn...
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Lucid AI and Cyc: Seeking Common Sense Reasoning
In support of reading Rebooting AI, been exploring where the implementation of CYC has taken place. We saw it demonstrated in the 80s. Followed it here since...
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IBM Has Successful AI Kickstarting Effort
Worked on several IBM initiated projects, was unaware of this particular effort. A little unlcear how success is measured. Though they say data science at first...
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What Does Quantum Tell us About Reality?
Good piece on Sciam I am reading. With a background in physics I understand the general concept, but not its direct and potential future application to computer...
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Fairness Indicators for AI Machine Learning
Brought to my attention, dealing with a potential solution for a project at hand. Good technical and non technical coverage. The approach is now available in...
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UiPath for RPA in Gartner Quadrant
Via UiPath. of interest:2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation SoftwareUiPath achieves the highest and furthest overall position for its ability...
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Wit and Wisdom of an Engineer
Had not mentioned this blog in a long time, deserves to be followed:Wit and Wisdom of an EngineerCovering the environment, engineering, technology and economics...
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Hacking Nuclear Plants
Good reason for very strict identification policies. And in the meantime, just keeping some things off the Net.How a nuclear plant got hackedPlugging nuclear ...
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Kroger Doubles Down on Food Delivery
A visit to my local Kroger indicates that more people are actively ordering and getting it delivered. In my own case have never even seriously thought of doing...
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